Luyện nghe bài hát A Song for Assata

(Common)
In the of God.
In the of the Ancestors.
In the of the Black Panthers.
In the of Assata Shakur.
We make this towards freedom
for all those who been oppressed, and all those in the struggle.
Yeah. yo, it-

were lights and sirens, gunshots firin
Cover your eyes as I a scene so violent
Seemed like a bad dream, she laid in a blood
Blood in her chest, cold air brushed against open flesh
No room to rest, pain each breath
Shot twice wit her up
Police questioned but shot before she
One Panther lost his life, the ran for his
Scandalous the police as they kicked and beat her
Comprehension she was beyond, hold on
to life. She thought she'd with no arm
what it felt like, got to the hospital, eyes held tight
They moved her room to room-she could tell by the
tight to the bed, through her skin it bit
Put guns to her head, every she got hit
"Who the trooper?" they asked her
Put in her eyes, threatened to blast her
Her mind raced till got still
Opened her eyes, realized she's next to her friend who got killed
She got chills, told her: that's where she would be next
Hurt mixed wit anger-survival was a
They lied and denied visits her lawyer
But she was as they tried to destroy her
If it wasn't for this german they woulda served her worse
I this sister's story, knew that it deserved a verse
I wonder what would happen if woulda been me?
All this shit so we be free, so dig it, y'all.

(Cee-lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yes.
to my Love, Assata, yes.
Your and Pride is beautiful.
May God bless Soul.

(Common)
It seemed like the middle of the night when the law her
cracklin, I see 'em when they takin her
Though she knew,
What made the ride peaceful was the trees and the sky was
Arrived to Middlesex Prison about six inna
Uneasy as they her to the second floor in
a cell, one cot, no window, hell.
Put in the basement of a wit all males
And the smell of misery, seatless and centipedes
She'd exercise, (paint?,) and to read
Two years hole. Her soul grew weak
Away from people so she forgot how to speak
She discovered frredom is a unspoken
And a is a wall and can be broken down
Found peace in the Panthers she on trial with
One of the she had a child with
The foulness would feed her, hopin she's lose her seed
Held tight, knowing the fight live through this seed
In need of a doctor, her stomach she's bleed
Out of this situation a was conceived
Separated from her, to mother the Revolution
And lactated to hate
Cause and state was built for a Black fate
Her emptiness was filled with and court dates
They fabricated cases, hoping one would
And said she robbed places that didn't
In the midst of threats on her life and being caged with whites
Through dark halls of hate she the light
I what would happen if that woulda been me?
All of shit so we could be free.
Yeah, I often wonder what would happen if woulda been me?
All of this shit so we could be free, so dig it,

(Cee-Lo)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God bless Soul.
Oooh.

(Common)
Yo
From North Carolina her grandmother bring
that she had had a dream
Her always meant what they needed them to mean
What made them real was the action in
She dreamt Assata was free in they old house in Queens
The fact that they always true was the thing
Assata had convicted of a murder she couldna done
evidence shown she couldna shot the gun
It's time for her to see the sun from the other
for her daughter to be by her mother's side
Time for this Beautiful Woman to become again
Time for her to breathe, and not be told how or
She untangled the and escaped the pain
How she broke out of I could never explain
And even to day they try to get to her
but she's with political asylum in Cuba.

(Cee-Lo vocals)
I'm of Assata, yeah.
to my Love, Assata, yeah.
We're from the same mud, Assata.
We share the Blood, Assata, yeah.
Your and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God bless Soul.
Power and Pride, so Beautiful...
May God your Soul.
Oooh.

(Assata)
Freedom! You askin me about freedom. Askin me about
I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what isn't
than about what it is, cause I've been free.
I can share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
Uhh, the way I see it, is-- is the right to grow, is the right to
blossom.
Freedom is -is the to be yourself, to be who you are,
to be who you wanna be, to do what you do. (fade out)